Chemo can not tell the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells. It kills the fastest dividing cell. This could be cancer, it could also be white blood cells, or hair cells.
Materials and Equipment:
chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Catheter is a certain drug injected into the veins to kill the cells as well. Some chemotherapies come in pills or liquids that you can swallow, others come in cream that you rub onto skin.
Side effects:
Hair loss, bruising, more susceptible to infections, fatigue, nausea, diarrhea
Used when...: Chemotherapy is used mainly to treat leukemia, lymphoma, prostate, breast and lung cancers. Along with many others that also can all be treated using this process.
Record the following
Impact on cell activity:
Chemo can not tell the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells. It kills the fastest dividing cell. This could be cancer, it could also be white blood cells, or hair cells.
Materials and Equipment:
chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Catheter is a certain drug injected into the veins to kill the cells as well. Some chemotherapies come in pills or liquids that you can swallow, others come in cream that you rub onto skin.
Side effects:
Hair loss, bruising, more susceptible to infections, fatigue, nausea, diarrhea
Used when...: Chemotherapy is used mainly to treat leukemia, lymphoma, prostate, breast and lung cancers. Along with many others that also can all be treated using this process.